Carol Burnett talks about mentor Lucille "Balls"

Carol Loves Lucy.

For the first time The Carol Burnett Show seasons one through five, will be available on DVD. The show’s namesake, Carol Burnett, dished on what to expect, as well as her relationship with Lucy, yes that Lucy: Lucille Ball.

Ball was a regular guest on the early seasons of The Carol Burnett Show, and Burnett made appearances on a number of Ball’s shows. According to Entertainment Weekly, although Ball was 22 years Burnett’s senior the two became close. Ball nicknamed Burnett “kid.”

Burnett recalled confiding in Ball about the difficulties of running a show. Ball told Burnett that when she was married to Desi Arnaz, he read the scripts and was very involved in the production of the their show. Once the two divorced and Ball went on to star in another series, she realized how much Arnaz had done behind the scenes. She encountered a terrible script, and had doubts about her qualifications to handle the situation because she was a woman. She eventually decided to stand up for herself and give her opinions on the script. Burnett remembers Lucy saying, “Kid, that’s when they put the ‘s’ at the end of my name.

Aside from the DVD release of The Carol Burnett Show’s first few seasons, it was also announced that Burnett will be receiving a SAG lifetime achievement award.

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